Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

++ In response to the ranting between US and Iran, social media has been inundated in every language, including Farsi, referring to US support for terrorism in the shape of…

++ This week saw many letters of complaint from families, ex-members and their supporters to the Albanian authorities about the abuse and misuse of human rights as the families are…

++ The MEK’s Villepinte event has been their most costly to date by provoking a severely negative reaction from just about everyone. Practically every opposition head and personality has condemned…

++ This year’s Villepinte event turned out to be a failure. The event not get any favourable coverage in spite of the presence of the notorious Rudi Giuliani, Newt Gingrich…

++ Two topics dominated Farsi commentary and writing this week: Maryam Rajavi’s Villepinte show in France and the suspicious death of MEK member Malek Shara’I in Albania. ++ Thematically, Rajavi…

In Albania, MEK issue statements saying, ‘anyone who separates is an agent of Iran’s intelligence ministry’. Some who have recently left, and Saber from Tabriz, have written to say: ‘Nobody buys this. Your problems are in Albania

As MEK members are escaping, Rajavi has tried to close Camp Ashraf Three. No visas are issued for leave. In spite of this, another person managed to run away this week.

++ Ebrahim Khodabandeh, head of Nejat Association, wrote about the MEK in Albania. He identifies the three most important recent issues as: bringing Massoud Rajavi back from the dead with…

Among the many reactions to the MEK asking the US to bomb Iran, the main one came from known analyst Professor Mohammad Sahimi. He wrote a note in his Twitter and Facebook about the MEK event in Washington and the MEK chanting for Giuliani to symbolically tear up the paper

In Albania, using the pretext of having no money, the MEK has begun contacting the families, trying to get money in exchange for letting them talk on the phone with their relatives. Ex-members have written comments reminding the families that all the money they can send is not comparable to the tens of thousands of dollars in fees that the MEK pays daily to lobbyists